This book gathers an accumulation of tests and studies originally made on wooden panels by Charline Tyberghein since she graduated from the Royal Academy of Antwerp. Offering itself as a sort of library of spellbinding painting samples, it demonstrates the artist’s mastery of trompe l’oeil techniques and op art effects. Banal objects and universal symbols are claimed as the artist’s own to translate her most personal experiences, turning them into in a new, parallel language.